The equipment allowed Ukrainian troops to spot the enemy group approaching Joint Forces positions in Donbas in the night hours.

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Ukrainian army servicewoman and military blogger Viktoriya Rudenko has reported on Facebook that a pair of Russian-backed terrorists were eliminated, largely thanks to U.S.-supplied night vision devices, as they made a failed attempt to penetrate fortified positions of Ukraine's Joint Forces in eastern Ukraine.

"Two imbeciles tried to penetrate our fortified position unnoticed. They had this picture in their mind of executing a successful sabotage operation... But these two worms weren't aware that, whatever they put on [to camouflage their movement], they are like Christmas trees in our snipers' night vision devices (supplied by our American friends). They weren't aware of that, and they never will. After all, why would they need that in their body bags," she wrote on Facebook.

As UNIAN reported earlier, Russian-led forces mounted 33 attacks on Ukrainian troops in Donbas in the past day, using heavy weapons in three instances.

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